PERSONAL DATA

EDUCATION

EMPLOYMENT

INDUSTRY CONSULTING

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS AND HONORS
 

PERSONAL DATA X

Date of Birth: January 24, 1954
Place of Birth: Sighet, Transylvania-Romania
Date of Immigration: August 22, 1972
Citizenship: Israeli
Marital Status: Married to Rita, one son: Ariel Moses
Home Address: 52 Hatishbi Street, Haifa, Israel
Home Phone: (Israel)972-(0)4-831-4311

EDUCATION X

1980-1984: PhD in EE, STANFORD U., Stanford, CA , USA.
1979-1980: MSc in EE, TECHNION , I.I.T., Haifa, , Israel.
1973-1977: BSc in EE, cum laude, TECHNION , I.I.T., Haifa, , Israel.

EMPLOYMENT X
October 2002 - January 2006, Dean of the Technion Graduate School,  TECHNION, I.I.T.

February 2005, Visiting Professor, Karlsruhe University, Germany.
January 2002 - December 2003, Visiting Chaired Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

February 1999 - present, Ollendor® Professor: Technion's Ollendor® Chair in Science, Computer Science Department, TECHNION, I.I.T.

November 1995 - February 1999, Professor, Computer Science Department, TECHNION, I.I.T.

April 1995 - September 1997, Member of Technical Sta®, Bell Laboratories, AT&T and Lucent Technologies, MURRAY HILL, New Jersey, USA, (on sabbatical leave from the Technion).

June 1989 - November 1995, Associate Professor, CS Department, TECHNION, I.I.T.

December 1988 - June 1989, Associate Professor, EE and CS Departments, TECHNION, I.I.T.

December 1987- December 1988, Tenured Senior Lecturer, EE  Department, TECHNION, I.I.T.
October 1984- December 1987, Lecturer, EE Deptartment, TECHNION, I.I.T.

Summer 1994, Visiting Professor, A.T.&T. Bell Labs, MURRAY HILL, New Jersey, USA.
Summer 1992, Visiting Professor, A.T.&T. Bell Labs, MURRAY HILL, New  Jersey, USA.
Summer 1991, Visiting Professor, A.T.&T. Bell Labs, MURRAY HILL, New Jersey, USA.
Summer 1990, Visiting Professor, A.T.&T. Bell Labs, MURRAY HILL, New Jersey, USA.
Summer 1989, Visiting Professor, A.T.&T. Bell Labs, MURRAY HILL, New Jersey, USA.
Summer 1987, Visiting Assist. Prof., A.T.&T. Bell Labs, MURRAY HILL, New Jersey, USA.

Summer 1986, Visiting Assist. Prof., EE Dept., STANFORD UNIVERSITY, California, USA.
Summer 1985, Visiting Assist. Prof., EE Dept., STANFORD UNIVERSITY, California, USA.

1980-1984, Research Assistant, EE Dept., STANFORD UNIVERSITY.

1979-1980, Teaching Assistant, EE Dept., TECHNION, I.I.T.

1977-1979, Military Service, I.D.F.

INDUSTRY CONSULTING X
1985-1994. Consultant to Galai Laboratories, Migdal Haemek, Israel. Participated in the design and development of advanced computerized inspection, shape analysis and image processing systems.

1997-2001. Consultant to Lucent Technologies on special cameras, image watermaking and image representation.

2000-2001. Consultant to JiGami Corporation (Net2Wireless) on image compression and representation technologies.

2004-2005. Consultant to O-Plus (presently Intel corporation).
 

2000-present. Consultant to Ardia Corporation on pathological diagnostics by image analysis and on telepathology.

2001 - present. Consultant and Member of Technical Advisory Board, MediGuide Corporation, Haifa, Israel.
 

2003 - present. Founder and Member of the Technical Staff of Agileye Technologies Ltd, Haifa, Israel.

2005 - present. Consultant and Member of Technical Advisory Board, Camero Ltd.

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS AND HONORS X
Rothschild Fellowship for Ph.D. Studies, 1980-1981.

The TAUB Award in Computer Science, 1989-1990.

Theeman Travel Grant of the Australian Technion Society for a Professional Visit to Australian Universities, 1992.

Honorable Mention of the Pattern Recognition Society for an Outstanding Contribution to the Pattern Recognition Journal, September 1992.

The Hershel Rich Technion Innovation Award for 1993, for the development of DigiDURER, a Digital Engraving System, 1993.

The paper "Why the Ant Trails Look so Straight and Nice" selected as one of the "top science stories in 1993" by DISCOVER Magazine, in the field of Mathematics.

The paper was also reviewed in SCIENCE Magazine and in the NEW SCIENTIST and several other journals and newspapers worldwide during 1994.

The Hershel Rich Technion Innovation Award for 2002, jointly with Adi Bar-Lev and Prof. Gershon Elber, for the development of the Computerized Marionette Theater System, 2002.